I recently had the opportunity to speak on the phone with Helen De Michiel, who, with fellow filmmaker Sophie Constantinou, produced and directed the Lunch Love Community. According to the film’s website, they call it their “open space documentary project.” The documentary, released online in the form of six webisodes, explores the community-based efforts in Berkeley, California to reform the school lunch program.

De Michiel will be screening and discussing the Lunch Love Community at noon on Saturday, April 16 at Cinemapolis. Accompanying her will be chef and cookbook author Julie Jordan and public health professor Stewart Auyash.

I recently had the opportunity to speak on the phone with Helen De Michiel, who, with fellow filmmaker Sophie Constantinou, produced and directed the Lunch Love Community. According to the film’s website, they call it their “open space documentary project.” The documentary, released online in the form of six webisodes, explores the community-based efforts in Berkeley, California to reform the school lunch program.

De Michiel will be screening and discussing the Lunch Love Community at noon on Saturday, April 16 at Cinemapolis. Accompanying her will be chef and cookbook author Julie Jordan and public health professor Stewart Auyash.

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GM: Some of your past work has also focused on local topics, such as your 1990 documentary Turn Here Sweet Corn, which was made in Minneapolis at a time you were living there. In Berkeley, where you are living now, you made the Lunch Love Community. How do you decide on which issues to cover in your documentaries?

HD: Yeah. I’m not really coming from a journalism background. I come from an art background, so I...

Part 2:

GM: Some of your past work has also focused on local topics, such as your 1990 documentary Turn Here Sweet Corn, which was made in Minneapolis at a time you were living there. In Berkeley, where you are living now, you made the Lunch Love Community. How do you decide on which issues to cover in your documentaries?

HD: Yeah. I’m not really coming from a journalism background. I come from an art background, so I...